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Dec 8, 20202 min read
Music and the Brain at Boston University (2014)
There was a dry but fascinating group of talks and performances held at Boston University Friday March 28. The papers deserve more...
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Dec 8, 20203 min read
THE PENGUIN JAZZ GUIDE: THE HISTORY OF THE MUSIC IN THE 1001 BEST ALBUMS (2010)
THE PENGUIN JAZZ GUIDE: THE HISTORY OF THE MUSIC IN THE 1001 BEST ALBUMS by Brian Morton and Richard Cook (Penguin Books, 2010) The...
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Dec 8, 20202 min read
Summer Book Review (2015)
This is a book review that I wrote this summer, but never published it due to all of the unexpected deaths of my friends and...
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Dec 8, 202011 min read
Ran’s Reflections (2014)
Nedelka Prescod, Gunther Schuller, and the conference at BU of African American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the...
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Dec 8, 20202 min read
Program Notes: The Marriage of Dance and Music in honor of the late Dr. Julia Sutton (10/22/14)
Dr. Julia SuttonThe performance of The Short Life of Barbara Monk is being dedicated tonight to the Monk family and Dr. Julia Sutton. My...
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Dec 8, 20202 min read
Remembering Ornette Coleman (2015)
I’ll never forget the summer of 1957 at the Lenox School of Jazz when Percy Heath played a few tracks of Ornette Coleman’s first record...
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Dec 8, 20205 min read
Memories of Mary Lou Williams (2018)
7/10/18 by Ran Blake (editing by Gardiner Hartmann) I must have met Mary Lou Williams in 1952 or 1953. My parents had gone with me to...
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Dec 8, 20205 min read
Complete Film Noir Liner Notes from Re-Issue (2016)
Many times there’s just not enough space to publish everything you’d like to say about a recording, especially a re-issue. Here are ...
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Sep 22, 202012 min read
Third Stream and the Importance of the Ear (1981)
Third Stream and the Importance of the Ear A position paper in Narrative Form by Ran Blake Third Stream and the Importance of the Ear,...
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Sep 22, 20201 min read
Primacy of The Ear Audio
The audio tracks below accompany Ran Blake’s book, Primacy of the Ear. Primacy of The Ear Audio The audio tracks below accompany Ran...
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Sep 22, 20206 min read
Remembering Aretha Franklin (2018)
2018, Remembering Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin, here are my thoughts… many are personal, and sifting through my memories on the...
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